Cornellians rejoice (especially those of you on or near academic probation): finding the easiest classes to take just got a little bit easier.

Munier Salem (Cornell ’10, Columbia GSAS) created this handy dandy interactive infographic (data from Fall 2009) using the university registrar-provided online median grade reports. Cornell’s Class of 2012 will be the first to have courses’ median grades listed on their transcripts, meaning that “A-” in AEM 4240: Management Strategy won’t look as sleek when the median grade in the class of 192 students is an “A”.

According to the Yale Daily News, Bloomberg initially misreported the clothing line as including Harvard in an article that has since been removed.

Harvard’s omission doesn’t draw too much sympathy from this blogger, but in order to avoid missing out on that sweet chunk of loyal alumni change feeling left out (again), Dartmouth and Brown should consider tracking down some local artisans for some totally sweet branded hemp parka hoodies, just so alumni can rep their alma maters as they’re walking from their barista jobs to their Subarus.

In case your calendar wasn’t already circled, highlighted, and gel pen-starred, the Brooks Brother line is dropping August 15.

In this glittering metropolis, you can’t cross the street without spotting a costumed crusader…. Every superhero in the New York City universe is represented along with their special powers, origin stories and power ratings. There’s the Out-of-Work Banker, the MFA Student, the Blogger and over a dozen more, all striving for glory in the city that never sleeps.

Notable Ivy League mentions are Harvard and Yale, apparently from which “creative hacks” and “intelligent black men” graduate. It remains unclear whether or not they lose their superhero status once they lose their jobs and start giving eye BJs.

Unconditional Raves

IvyGate has been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, New York Observer, Newsweek, New Yorker, and other publications, as well as NBC, MSNBC, Fox News, Drudge Report, Gawker, The Huffington Post, Wonkette, Jezebel, The Awl, and many more. Most are horrified.